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When the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins emerged from a meeting of the University's Senators (full professors) last week, he was smiling-some thought, with a stiff upper lip. Ninety-four out of 136 professors present had cast what amounted to a vote of...
President Hutchins believes, and has said (TIME, May 1) that a university should crusade for "a moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution." The faculty prefers the orthodox academic position: the advancement of knowledge by research and teaching independent of any moral commitment except to "the Truth."
"The [University's] function [is] advancing knowledge by freely determined research and teaching. We cannot see how the University could become an effective instrument ... of the revolutionary crusade . . . except by some kind of common institutional adherence to a particular analysis of what is wrong with the world . . . and ... a...
Ends & Means. Some of the means towards Hutchins' ends proposed in his country-club speech have since been reported (TIME, Feb. 28):
¶ A new Institute of Liberal Studies should train teachers of Hutchins-style liberal education based on the "100 best books."